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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Analysis
Review: One flew over the cuckoos nest

Since Hollywood is planning to remake the 1975 masterpiece “One flew over the cuckoos nest”, I thought I'd make a review of it, trying to convince the Hollywood executives that this movie still holds up today, and doesn't need a remake.

The film begins with R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson) arriving at a mental institution. He's chosen to stay at the psychic ward instead of going to normal state prison. At the ward, he meets a whole bunch of iconic characters. McMurphy stirrs up the boring everyday routine for the patiences, all to the disliking of the menacing Nurse Ratchet (Fletcher).

Remaking movies should, in a perfect world, only be remade if the original had great potential but had some flaws that held

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